The Walking Dead comic book may have ended its original run in 2019, but that doesn't mean we've seen the last of the franchise on the printed page. Clementine, the star of Telltale's Walking Dead video games, is now taking a starring role in a series of spinoff graphic novels.
IGN can exclusively debut a new preview of The Walking Dead: Clementine Book One, which is written and drawn by Tillie Walden (Spinning, Are You Listening?). Check it out in the slideshow gallery below:
Clementine recently made her comic book debut in the pages of Skybound X, an anthology series that also revisited the fanciful "Rick Grimes 2000" storyline introduced in The Walking Dead #75. However, Clementine Book One will feature a much longer and more in-depth look at Clementine's fate after the events of the Telltale games. Here's Skybound's official description for the series:
Clementine is back on the road, looking to put her traumatic past behind her and forge new path all her own. But when she comes across an Amish teenager named Amos with his head in the clouds, the unlikely pair journeys North to an abandoned ski resort in Vermont, where they meet up with a small group of teenagers attempting to build a new, walker-free settlement. As friendship, rivalry, and romance begin to blossom amongst the group, the harsh winter soon reveals that the biggest threat to their survival…might be each other.
The Clementine series will ultimately span three graphic novels, though Skybound has yet to reveal any plot details or release date information for the remaining two books. The Walking Dead: Clementine Book One will be release in comic shops and digital comics storefronts on June 22, 2022, with a bookstore release to follow on June 28.
Telltale's Walking Dead series spanned four main seasons and several spinoffs between 2012 and 2019, with Skybound stepping in to help finish the series after Telltale's unexpected closure in 2018. The games were also rereleased as The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series in 2019.
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